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Comstock/Thinkstock(DUBLIN, Ireland) -- You can watch pornography in the comfort of your home, or in some hotel rooms, but on an airplane?

The CEO of Dublin, Ireland-based Ryan Air is floating the idea of offering porn on his low-cost carrier. According to British press reports, CEO Michael O’Leary is mulling over a new app for iPads or smartphones that would allow passengers to watch erotic movies -- for a fee, of course.

O’Leary makes it clear he’s not proposing to offer porn on the plane’s TV screens, just on personal electronic devices. Still, as any flyer knows, there’s hardly any assurance that passengers and children sitting nearby wouldn’t be in for a shocking sight.

The proposed app could also include games and gambling. The airline says the idea would take at least a year to implement, requiring good broadband connections on the aircraft. The airline insists it hasn’t decided for sure whether to move forward.

Ryan Air, which flies throughout Europe, charges fees for just about everything from checked luggage to food and drinks -- even for checking in online and printing your boarding pass, even though that is required because the airline doesn’t offer any check-in at the airport.

Much like Spirit Air in the U.S., Ryan Air’s philosophy is to charge as low a fare as possible for your seat, then heap on fees for everything else. Major airlines, of course, have adopted some of these fees themselves.

Ryan’s CEO has made it a habit of suggesting controversial moves. He’s talked about taking out some of the bathrooms to add more seats, selling standing room seats, and moving to pay toilets.

And the airline has just launched a racy crew calendar as well. If O’Leary does make good on his latest idea, you can bet that’s one add-on fee that U.S. airlines aren’t likely to adapt.

Photo Courtesy - Getty Images(LONDON) -- Passengers traveling aboard Ryanair flight 8175 apparently had had enough with airline fees. So much so that 100 of them, on a flight from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to Brussels, Belgium, had to be removed from the airplane by Spanish police over the weekend.

The passengers became disruptive and refused to comply with crew instructions after a number of their group was assessed a "gate bag fee," according to a statement posted online by Ryanair. The fee applies to bags that exceed certain weight and size limitations and runs 35 Euros (about $47.50) per bag.

The Irish-based low-cost carrier says, "Lanzarote police required the entire aircraft to be offloaded, each passenger identified," adding, "Following further disruptive behavior, the police required for security reasons that this entire group be refused travel."

BBC News identified the group as Belgian students, adding that approximately 70 of the students were still stuck in Lanzarote Sunday night.

Ryanair said it would re-accommodate some of the group. However, the airline added that "any individuals who engaged in disruptive behavior or refused to follow crew instructions will not be allowed to fly." The incident resulted in a three-hour delay for the remaining passengers.

Ryanair lists over 20 fees on its website, starting at four Euros for priority boarding access. The carrier charges 40 Euros to re-issue a lost or misplaced boarding pass, a fee that has generated some controversy. According to a BBC News report, a judge in Spain has ruled that fee illegal.

On its website Ryanair defends the practice.

The practice took off in 2007 when cash-strapped carriers turned to fees to offset rising fuel prices. Now, passengers flying on an airline in the U.S. can encounter any number of airline fees from a pre-boarding fee to a charge for extra leg room.